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Kids Say Deputies Beat Dad to Death
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (CN) - Kern County sheriff's deputies beat a man to death after finding him sleeping on a front lawn, the man's family claims in court.
Tara Garlick and four children sued Kern County, its Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Donny Youngblood and seven deputies in Federal Court for the wrongful death of David Sal Silva, the children's father.
Garlick describes herself in the complaint as Silva's "life partner," but she does not say if she is the children's mother.
The family claims the deputies used excessive force on Silva though he posed no threat to them, causing him to die of blunt force trauma.
"On May 17, 2013, a sheriff's deputy reported to a scene where a man was asleep on a front lawn," the complaint states. "Upon arrival the sheriff's deputy proceeded to knuckle-rub the sleeping man, causing the man to wake up in a panic. Immediately thereafter, this sheriff's deputy, along with five other sheriff's deputies and a sergeant, proceeded to strike this man with batons several times all over his body, while the man screamed in pain and repeatedly begged the officers to stop. At about this same time, a K-9 dog belonging to one of the sheriff's deputies attacked the man. Eventually, the officers hog-tied the man. After the repeated beating by the sheriff's deputies and biting by a deputy's K-9 dog, the man eventually stopped breathing. Nonetheless, the sheriff's deputies failed to immediately transport the man to a hospital despite the man's apparent inability to breathe. Finally, after a significant delay the man was taken to Kern Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:44 a.m. on May 8, 2013."
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